Aided design of finite-state dialogue management systems

Due to recent progresses in the field of speech and natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems are becoming more and more common. Nevertheless, the design of complete dialogue systems remains uneasy. On the one hand, developing such a system involves defining a dialogue strategy. Though automatic learning of dialogue strategies has been introduced in several researches, it stays hard to use in practice. On the other hand, system design implies some coding skills and is still a job for specialists despite the emergence of the voiceXML language. In this paper, we describe a graphical interface dedicated to ease the development of dialogue systems. The user of the interface may be helped along his design thanks to automatically learned strategies.